You can talk until you're blue in the face, but you'll never convince me.
Source: tatoeba (18060)
Convince
//kənˈvɪns//
Synonyms for "convince" (108 found)
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93 translations across 53 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- πείθω verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
- ἀναπείθω verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Arabic
3 entries- أَقْنَعَ verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
- أَقْنَعَ verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
- أَقْنَعَ verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Armenian
1 entries- համոզել verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Asturian
1 entries- convencer verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- inandırmaq verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Basque
1 entries- konbentzitu verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Belarusian
2 entries- запэ́ўніваць verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
- запэ́ўніць verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Bulgarian
2 entries- убедя́ verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
- убеждавам verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Catalan
1 entries- convèncer verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 說服 /说服 verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Czech
1 entries- přesvědčit verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Danish
3 entries- overbevise verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
- overtale verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
- overtyde verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Dutch
1 entries- overtuigen verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Esperanto
1 entries- konvinki verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Estonian
1 entries- veenma verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Finnish
1 entries- vakuuttaa verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
French
2 entries- convaincre verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
- persuader verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Georgian
1 entries- დარწმუნება verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
German
1 entries- überzeugen verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Greek
1 entries- πείθω verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Hebrew
1 entries- שכנע verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Hungarian
1 entries- meggyőz verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Icelandic
1 entries- sannfæra verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Italian
1 entries- convincere verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Japanese
3 entries- 納得させる verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
- 自覚させる verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
- 説得する verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Khmer
3 entries- បញ្ចុះបញ្ចូល verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
- ប្រលោម verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
- អន្ទង verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Korean
3 entries- 납득시키다 verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
- 설득하다 verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
- 확신시키다 verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Latin
3 entries- convinco verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
- persuadere verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
- sibi persuasum habere verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Latvian
1 entries- pārliecināt verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Macedonian
2 entries- убеди verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
- убедува verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Maltese
1 entries- ikkonvinċa verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Mongolian
2 entries- итгүүлэх verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
- үнэмшүүлэх verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Māori
3 entries- whakakīkī verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
- whakapakepake verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
- whakawhere verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- overbevise verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Old English
2 entries- oferreccan verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
- oferstǣlan verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- اقناع ایتمك verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Polish
2 entries- przekonać verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
- przekonywać verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Portuguese
1 entries- convencer verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Romanian
1 entries- convinge verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Romansch
4 entries- conventscher verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
- cunventscher verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
- parschuader verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
- persvader verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Russian
2 entries- убеди́ть verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
- убежда́ть verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Sardinian
4 entries- cumbinci verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
- cumbínchere verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
- cumbínghere verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
- cunvinci verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- ubéditi verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
- ùvjeriti verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
- у̀вјерити verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
- убе́дити verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Sicilian
2 entries- cummìnciri verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
- cunvìnciri verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Slovak
1 entries- presvedčiť verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Slovene
1 entries- prepríčati verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Spanish
3 entries- convencer verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
- llevar al huerto verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
- llevarse al huerto verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Swedish
1 entries- övertyga verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Telugu
2 entries- ఒప్పించు verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
- నమ్మించు verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Turkish
1 entries- ikna etmek verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Ukrainian
2 entries- переко́нувати verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
- перекона́ти verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Venetan
3 entries- convinser verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
- convinçar verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
- convinçer verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Vietnamese
1 entries- thuyết phục verb (to make someone believe, or feel sure about something)
Sample sentences
17 total sentences available.
I could not convince him of his mistake.
Source: tatoeba (28943)
It is hard to convince John.
Source: tatoeba (52504)
It is hard to convince Jack.
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